SAN ANTONIO - The best uses of established local dental anesthetics, as well as the future use of nasal spray and long-acting anesthetics, were the focus of an opening-day session at the ADA 2014 ...

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has largely phased out its use of desflurane in anesthesia, according to a July 25 WHRO News report. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas used for anesthesia. It became ...

The first time I went under the knife, I remember the anesthesiologist asking me to count backward. “Ten, nine, eight…” and then it all went black. The next thing I knew, three hours had passed, yet ...

Right before surgery, the climate crisis is probably the last thing on your mind. If you’re under general anesthesia, you actually might not be thinking about much of anything at all. But ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Research reveals a new way to administer anesthetic in the mouth If you're scared of the dentist's needles you're not alone - but new research means you might not have to put off that appointment ...

An FDA panel of government physicians and scientists convened on March 10 to discuss the potential link between anesthesia and cognitive damage in children but left with more questions than answers, ...

Doctors know how to use anesthetics, but they don't know the mechanism behind them. What DARPA is striving for with ABC is to solicit ideas on how to create a simpler, easy-to-apply battlefield ...

* review results in new warnings about using general anesthetics and sedation drugs in young children and pregnant women Sign up here. * to better inform public about potential risk, we are requiring ...

Early exposure to anesthetics may make adolescents more susceptible to developing alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to new research. Early exposure to anesthetics may make adolescents more ...

Early exposure to anesthetics may make adolescents more susceptible to developing alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. David ...